protest
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Godwin Ejeh, a community leader in Sunderland's Nigerian community, gave evidence to say he led a protest outside the City Hall building when Gibbins should have been sworn in, hoping the councillor would apologise.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
He said the government had summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris to "lodge a very strong protest against this extremely grave act".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The federal agents departed the hospital shortly after a priest appeared at the scene of the protest, video shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Nunez has said that since the beginning of the high-school protest movement police had acted with "the greatest proportionality".
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Under protest, he agreed to accept just eighteen dollars, the price he had paid for the boat.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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The demonstrations come after mass protests by unions on Thursday accompanied by strikes, with teaching unions vowing more walk-outs next week.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
Earlier this year, large protests broke out in Houston after an ICE officer fatally shot a man driving to work.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Some 70,000 members of the security forces were deployed Saturday, ready to move in quickly after mass protests on October 17 degenerated into the worst riots seen in France in years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
The museum chief discusses the challenges of leading the Louvre as France is roiled by protests and the institution faces a sorely needed renovation—including a rethinking of how it presents the Mona Lisa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
That night protests broke out in Baltimore; Washington, DC; Newark; and other cities around the country.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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The decision was met with boos from the crowd, while BBC commentator Harry Carpenter protested: "How can you take the man's three titles away like that?"
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
She recalled that her grandmother protested as a dentistry student in 1968 and her aunt, an architecture student, took part in demonstrations in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
She protested at the Fresno County Board of Supervisors for increased pay for home healthcare workers, who made just $12 an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of students have protested in recent weeks over staff shortages and dilapidated facilities in the country's lycées - secondary schools attended by 15 to 18-year-olds.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Elizebeth never protested because she never knew it happened.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Cooking and bathing became difficult when taps ran dry in Batam, an Indonesian island where residents are protesting as data centres spring up to power the global artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
“But Anita, you’ve only been here for five minutes,” Ms. Lee represents herself as protesting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Sheen has been arrested more than 60 times throughout his life for protesting various causes, and was a friend of the labor leader Dolores Huerta, whose image sits on a table in his dining room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
BBC Panorama follows a grieving mother, Samira, who takes on the regime after her teenage daughter, Sevda, was shot dead while protesting on the outskirts of Tehran.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
He was seized and dragged to Priam, weeping and protesting that he no longer wished to be a Greek.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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